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OZONE WAR [1 record]

Record 1 1990-01-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Pollution
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
CONT

The long battle over CFCs between politicians, industry, and the scientific community has been called the Ozone War. The issue was (and to a large degree still is) whether the use of CFCs would result in a deleterious thinning of the ozone layer, as scientists argued, or whether, as industry countered, the scientists were basing their calculations on flimsy evidence and, furthermore, had no understanding of economic realities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'air
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
DEF

Débat au sein de la communauté scientifique entre ceux qui prétendent, du côté des écologistes, que les composés chlorofluorés appauvrissent la couche d'ozone et ceux, du côté des fabricants de produits chimiques, qui voudraient une preuve plus convaincante avant qu'on songe à interdire l'utilisation commerciale de ces substances.

Spanish

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